The source material describes a family of mermaids with brown and dark curly hair. An Ariel that cuts out her tongue, attempts to kill the prince and his new wife after she is rejected by the prince, then commits suicide.

Why is your only concern about the source material the skin color of the mermaid that not once is central to any of the story? A story that is all but excised and barely recognizable outside of a mermaid wanting a Prince and to be human?

This is one of those times where this argument simply does not work. You cant claim adherence to a source material that is already a gross bastardization and then the only thing you care about in another bastardization of the source material is the mermaid staying white. At least not without thinking the obvious, which is that your issue isn't representing the source material, its that you simply don't want a black person cast in the lead

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Why would nonwhite people want what amounts to white peoples' sloppy seconds of well known characters rather than new characters they could call their own? It kind of feels like it's mostly because it pisses off white people...

Seems to mean a lot based on how many white people melt down when they are not the sole racial representation in all of these adaptions and remakes.

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Posted by GeauxTigerTM

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Posted on 3/13/23 at 4:33 pm to Bronc

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The source material describes a family of mermaids with brown and dark curly hair. An Ariel that cuts out her tongue, attempts to kill the prince and his new wife after she is rejected by the prince, then commits suicide.

Why is your only concern about the source material the skin color of the mermaid that not once is central to any of the story? A story that is all but excised and barely recognizable outside of a mermaid wanting a Prince and to be human?

A) all things being equal, I'd have preferred Disney stick to that source material when doing TLM in the first place, but it obviously would not have gone over well.

B) since they Disnefied the story, THAT becomes Disney's source material and the one it ought to stick with, because it's the one they've shown people is their version for decades.

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Seems to mean a lot based on how many white people melt down when they are not the sole racial representation in all of these adaptions and remakes

It's been brought up before but it's the perfect example. M. Night's shitty version of Avatar was panned for sucking, but also for whitewashing characters and both reasons were valid. Fans of the show who ere white were not happy that he cast a bunch of whities in the roles, because they wanted it to remain true to the source. and it's why they rejoiced when Netflix released images of the actors cast in their version.

Why? If white fans were so racist, shouldn't they have liked the first one and complained the Netflix version was bad because of all the nonwhite actors? Or could it be something less insidious as I suggested?

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